viii, 232 pages ; 24 cm

The author argues that, if post-modernism marks the loss of centrality of European culture, nowhere has such a dislocation been more marked than in the status of history. He questions the limits of Western knowledge and the relevance of "history" as seen through the eyes of Western colonialism

Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-213) and index

1. White mythologies -- 2. Marxism and the questioni of history -- 3. Sartre's extravagances -- 4. The scientific critiquw of historicism -- 5. Foucault's phantasms -- 6. The Jameson raid -- 7. Disorienting orientalism -- 8. The ambivalence of Bhabha -- 9. Spivak: decolonization, deconstruction

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